It’s almost deer season on Illinois roads

Feeling lucky? Bloomington-based State Farm Insurance Co. points out that the odds of you hitting a deer in your car this year are 1 out of 211.

If you’re nervous about running into wildlife on the open road, be glad you don’t live in West Virginia which, for the eighth year in a row, leads the country as the most likely state to have a collision with a deer (the odds there are 1 out of 39), according to State Farm.

As a state, Illinois ranks 31st in the country for most deer collisions, the insurance company noted.

“While Illinois motorists may see slightly more deer than last year, the numbers will be well below those observed during peak deer-vehicle collision years of the recent past,” said Tom Micetich, deer project manager for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

The months when deer are most active in Illinois are November and October.

Author: Steve Tarter

Born in England, raised in Boston, I'm a Midwestern transplant who's called Peoria home for the past 40 years. Married with four grown children, I enjoy journalism, film noir and radio drama. As the song goes, I like coffee; I like tea. Former president of the Apollo Theater in Downtown Peoria, I'm looking for a new raison d'etre.
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